Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-10-16

energies both to the art of singing and
10 the theoretical and instrumental
study Of music. This ambition was
encouraged by her teachers, who OBJ
served with admiration herdiligcnt cul-
tivation Of superior natural gifts. Her
progress was wonderful, and it was
greatly promoted after she had left the
conservatory by her residence with the
family Of the popular Swedish com
poser, Adolph Frederick Lindblad.
Jenny Lind was eighteen years OF age
when, after brilliant successes in pri-
waite entertainments and in the court
concerts, she made her first appearance
in opera as Agatha in "Der Fries
chutz." This was the beginning OF Il
local fame which eclipsCd that OF all
Swedish singers. In 1874, realizing the
Impotence Of being prepared 10 win a
wider appreciation than that OF partial
friends and ncighbors, she placed her
self under the tuition OF Garcia at
Paris, where she could also benefit by
the performances Of leading stars. \
public appearance in Paris did not re-
suit in the Swedish Nightingale ="
receiving an engagement. Having re-
turned to Stockholm, her appearance
renewed the generous admiration of the
people of that capital. She was en-
gagged at Berlin in 1874 at the instance
Of Meyorbeer, who had met her in
Paris, and her "period Of glory" IL
an enthusiastic admirer puts it, be
gan in that city in " Norma. s"
Her engagement at the Prussian
capital ended in April, lS45, after
which she visited several German
cities, including Vienna. The great
singer made her debm in London in
1877, with very marked success 1t
was followed by tour in England, and
on December -, 1919, by her memorl.
bic appearance in oratoro ii the Men
dels. obn memorial, when the "Eliilh ~
was performed with an almost unlqu"
perfection. After spending some time
IN Stockholm, where tickets emitting
the fortunate holders to seats .wher.
she sang were sold by auction, she re
turned to London i'll 1919. She II
tired from the stage in May OF that
year, the principal cause being the Oh
lection of a gentleman to whom she
was engaged to be married, but who
did not become her husband.
Jenny Lind now formed the project
TO devote herself to oratorio and con
cert singing, and in 1850 she made an
engagement with 2. T. Barnum for 9
through the United States, British pro-
vinces, Mexico, and the West Indies.
Her first appearance in New York will
be remembered as probably the great
est musical event that has ever taken
place on this continent. The receipts
Of this tour were 100000, OF which
her share amounted to $500, 600. 1t was
in America, at Boston, February 8,
1852, that she became the wife of Mr.
Otto Goldschmidt, who accompanied
heras pianist. In 1852 Madame Gold
schmidt and her husband returned TO
Europe. She visited her native city,
and then made her residence at Ores
den. Some of her greatest triumphs
we're realized in England, after her re-
turn to that country in 1856. In 1874
she and her husband became leading
professors at the Rhenish Academy of
Music in Wiesbaden. Her home OF
late years has been in London, where
her kind manners and abundant chart
ties, as everywhere she has lived, have
endeared her to the public. The Bach
choir, which has familiarized the peO-
pie OF the English metropolis with the
masterpieces of the great composer
named, was founded by this distin-
guished woman and her husband.
Idolized as q singer possessing a con-
tralto voice OF much power and express
sion, though but moderate in range,
and always doing her utmost to please
her auditory whether graced by royalty
or consisting OF but q sprinkling OF
white folks with host of illiterate
colored people, Jenny Lind viii be re-
membered by posterity as queen OF
song, nor less as model wife, mother
and friend, and woman OF great and